Identification Mechanic

[ikabod-kee]

Description

Identification explained:

• Some/most loot found in chests will be "Unidentified," meaning their stats are completely hidden from the player. This can include tools, accessories, foods, or potions (just as examples.)
• A player can use a "Scroll of Identification" to identify the loot, revealing its stats to only that player.

Advantages of this mechanic:

• Identification is per-player, meaning that if an item is identified by player 1, then given to player 2, player 2 will still see it as "Unidentified." This can lead to scenarios of trust-building among players, or potentially trolling and scamming. Either way, it would lead to fun outcomes!
• An unidentified potion may have negative or positive effects, but can still be used. This introduces risk/reward to looting while also giving the player the option to negate the risk at the cost of a resource.
• Scrolls of Identification themselves can be placed as loot in chests.

This mechanic will likely need much testing before being added, hence why I've given it the experimental tag.

[Wunka]

I think this can be achieved through: #2530
items could then have their own permissionPath like "/items/[tool/item/etc]/identification/[unique_id]"
A player who uses the Scroll of Identification would then just get this permissionPath added to its permission whitelist

[Argmaster]

I don't like the magical generic scroll thing. Could be a workstation tho. Such workstation could be used for examining (determine the stats) and researching (get a recipe, ingredients and stuff)

Alternatively we could make the player probe the world around them to learn the properties of a tool?
For example, to uncover a good at modifier they would have to mine the block that the pickaxe is good at.
Potions/food would pretty much have to be used to learn the properties, so maybe the knowledge should persist for all of the potions of that combination of ingredients.

[Crepestrom]

would be sick if indentifying a material gives you its material stats like weight and hardness
though i would want modifiers like being surrounded by percious giving 50% damage always exposed
the intetification just giving a way to see those stats while ingame

[ikabod-kee]

@Argmaster I really like that concept!